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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Occurrence & distributionGBIF89 records
DNA & barcodingBOLD6 specimens
01Narrative
Acronicta lanceolaria, the lanceolate dagger moth or pointed dagger, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1875. It is found in North America, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. It is listed as a species of special concern and believed extirpated in the US state of Connecticut."Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 27, 2018. Adults are on wing in early June in one generation. Reported larval hosts include Populus grandidentata, Salix and Rubus.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Acronicta lanceolaria has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens6
BINs1
Marker genes1
Countries2
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus6 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 4 variable positions, in barcode order
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)0.23%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.30%
N.America
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★COI-5P
animal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type89 records
Wild obs. + sensor65
Museum / vouchered24
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO272 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 35≤1 km 5≤10 km 4>10 km 8
52 georeferenced · 13 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor65
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy54% within 1 km
≤100 m 1≤1 km 6≤10 km 5>10 km 1
13 georeferenced · 11 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence24
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions6 of 8 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
East Lansing, US
6
New Haven, US
5
Washington, US
4
University of Alberta Museums (UAM)location not on record
3
Cambridge, US
1
Chicago, US
1
Colorado State Universitylocation not on record
1
St. Paul, US
1
8 institutions · 22 of 24 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code
